Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Summer Will Never End

I grip handlebars of my bike and pump pedals with all my might. I race up the hill toward the church and spin wheels toward the morning light. I ride around town with my friend, hoping summer will never end.

I race with David down the road on the college campus to ride. We climb high the library wall then drink cold root beers side by side. I explore campus with my friend, hoping summer will never end.

I sit at the library desk, read the Hobbit all afternoon, gone with the wizard on a quest, and chant tales under the gold moon. I walk Middle-Earth with my friend, hoping summer will never end.

I ride my pony with a bow, who gallops in the Texas heat. I sing for Brenda by the door who invites me in for a seat. I sing in Texas for my friend, hoping summer will never end.

Leaving heat of Texas behind, we return home to Oregon. We all ride in the pickup truck up Colorado mountain road. I wave good-bye to my old friend, hoping summer will never end.

Inventing new language and world, at sprawling university, I draw Takoma Mountain peak, and study spells of poetry. I think about my long lost friend, hoping summer will never end.

Playing guitar on city streets, I hitchhike far across this land. I chant the history of the world and beam galaxies from my hand. I forget about my old friend, hoping summer will never end.

I search for David on FaceBook, remembering Texas afternoons. He gassed himself inside his truck more than twenty-five years before. I stare at picture of my friend, hoping summer will never end.

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About Me

I am a cartographer, geospatial analyst, and terrain developer by day, and epic poet by night.

I am writing an epic poem in blank verse titled Hermead about scientists and inventors of civilization. This bible for atheists and scientists is now 120,000 lines of blank verse covering the lives of 25 Greek philosophers.

I posted about 200 songs I wrote and composed at http://youtube.com/surazeus but do not expect anything more than amateur fun folk singing.

I was born in Oregon in the Year of the Beatles, grew up in Texas in the 1970s, went to high school and college in Takoma (Washington state) in the 1980s. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts in 1988 at Washington State University. After living in Seattle for a few years, I hitchhiked around the country playing grunge folk in the 1990s.

I got a job as web designer at State of Michigan 1999-2004, then earned a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science 2005-8 at Michigan State University.

I have since lived in North Carolina and now in Georgia working as a cartographer. Where will I go next on the journey of life? My goal is to become a Professor of Literature at Harvard, which was founded by my ancestor, Thomas Dudley.

I married an Indonesian Muslim woman from Java Island and we have two cute daughters I named for goddesses of wisdom -- Saraswati and Athena.

I am generally a Gnostic Humanist. I do not know if there is a God or not, but the gods of history were humans who had a large influence on their times. What is most important is that I know myself and understand my perceptions, and recreate them in verse.

I am descended 13 generations from the Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet. Her father, Thomas Dudley, signed the charter to found Harvard, and was descended from the Sutton-Dudley clan of Elizabethan England, who were descended from Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

My religion is Astarism.

Astarism honors First Mother Astara Ishtar Athena.

Ishtar sent Abraham and Sarah west and they founded Assurism, Olympism, Apollonism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sufism, and all their branches and offshoots.

Ishtar sent Brahma and Saraswati east and they founded Hinduism, Vaishnism, Shaivism, Buddhism, Krishnaism, Sikhism, and all their branches and offshoots.